Howard Palmer Papers

Howard W. Palmer was born in Keeseville, New York, on November 12, 1895. He attended Columbia College, graduating in 1917. He began his newspaper career as a reporter at the Watertown Daily Times, and later advanced to become the city and state editor for the paper. In 1924, he left Watertown to become assistant secretary of the New York State Public Service Commission in Albany. Mr. Palmer returned to the newspaper business as editor and general manager of the Greenwich Press in 1926 and remained in that capacity until 1941. While at the Press, the newspaper won many national awards for general excellence, community service, and editorial merit. Mr. Palmer served for many years as the director of the National Editorial Association. He later worked in newspapers in Texas and Iowa, and served as interim manager of the Virginia and Missouri Press Associations. In 1948, he was appointed secretary manager of the New York Press Association and served in that capacity and as a journalism instructor at Syracuse University until his retirement. Howard Palmer died in 1980.